Energy in Water ESCP
“supporting the global competitiveness of SME’s operating in the “energy-water”
sector”
ESCP objective
The objective of this ESCP for Energy in Water is to harness the growth and valorisation potential of new and
existing businesses operating in the energy-water nexus and to create a common strategy between the
partnership to drive the international competitiveness of these European enterprises, developing solutions
to global challenges.
Activities planned
Market Screening: Collaborative analysis of existing market intelligence to compile a “Solutions Needs
Analysis” for the global water utility sector and specific international destinations chosen by the partnership.
Internationalisation Strategies: The Solutions Needs Analysis will be used to create an internationalisation
strategy that will define a pathway for assisting European SMEs into new international markets.
Challenge Response: Market intelligence on specific challenges and opportunities for European SMEs will be
collected and shared by the partners and disseminated to SMEs in order to find the most suitable solutions.
R&D Partnerships: On key issues, such as on efficient ways of harnessing renewable energy from sludge, the
partnership will form a small number of R&D partnerships between key academic and research
organisations to drive forward knowledge exchange and the development of new innovative concepts.
Target countries
The partnership clearly consider internationalisation as a key priority and, as a result of internal surveys, are
currently targeting the common international markets of USA/Canada, Brazil, China, Mediterranean Region,
Eastern Europe / Baltic Sea Region.
Concrete results expected

Creation of a collaboration agreement with 9 world-class European clusters working together to support the
internationalisation of European enterprises in the water-energy sector.
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Development of a unified brand for the ESCP on energy in water.
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Partnership agreement between the ESCP and the European Innovation Partnership on Water, I-NOWS (International
Network of Water SMEs), and the Enterprise Europe Network to collaborate and share opportunities.
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Creation of 3 "Solutions Needs Analysis" documents for 3 priority sectors in 3 priority international destinations.
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Development of 3 R&D partnerships between members of the partnership’s clusters.
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Identification of 10 inward investment opportunities.
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Identification of 15 pan-European opportunities within the ESCP.
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Identification of 25 opportunities with companies and research organisations in countries covered by the European
Commission's joint agreements.
Project coordinator contact details
Gareth Jones
Sarah Weaving
Head of Business Development
Network Development Manager (Water Innovation Network)
gareth.jones@opportunitypeterborough.co.uk
sarah.weaving@opportunitypeterborough.co.uk
+44 (0)1733 317404
+44 (0)1733 317423
Consortium partners
Participant
Type of
Organization
Region/Country
Overview
The Valencian Energy Industries Cluster (AVAESEN) is a non-profit
cluster created to represent and promote the Valencian renewable
energy companies in the photovoltaic, wind power, solar, biomass,
biofuel, and geothermal subsectors as well as the entire value chain
– engineering, installation, consulting, testing, promoting firms.
The CD2E is a “triple helix” cluster bringing together universities,
centres of research, SMEs, industrials, local territories and regional
council in order to foster green technologies and services in
Northern France (Lille region).
HYDREOS is the French water quality technology cluster. It
supports innovation in all themes related to water management. It
gathers around 80 members mainly from the business sector (from
small SMEs to global players), research institutions and education
sector.
Lahti Region Development LADEC Ltd promotes Lahti Region and
its companies and other stakeholders from our region. LADEC
offers for the companies comprehensive business development
services which covers a whole lifecycle of the company. Our focus
areas are cleantech, industrial design and practice based
innovation.
Our aim is to create the best condition for developing energyefficient technologies and solutions. To encourage innovation,
create new markets and jobs, and foster economic development in
this field, conditions for Danish companies must be even better than
they are now. With this in mind, we have established the Cluster
Initiatives Lean Energy Cluster and the cooling cluster KVCA.
The main goal of MICTC is to promote SME from the ICT sector
and increase their competitiveness by supporting projects in
technological and marketing areas. Mazovia ICT Cluster strongly
promotes collaboration between its members, especially between
SMEs and Research Institutes.
The main purpose of the Bavarian Environment Cluster is the
strengthening and development of the environmental technology in
Bavaria through networking, information and the increasing of
cooperations.
The network, managed by Opportunity Peterborough, brings
together the water utility company with the supply chain to look at
opportunities for increased efficiency, carbon reduction and
improved customer service across all water and wastewater
activities. This is achieved by three main areas of activity: dialogue,
collaboration and idea submission.
The aim of SP Water Technology Centre (SP-WTC) is to bring
together the SP Group’s resources and competences in order to
coordinate and support activities concerning water, wastewater and
the distribution of water. WTCs broad capacity in research,
technical evaluation, testing, investigations and product
development will provide insights and solutions that will be used by
water and water waste industries.
AVAESEN
Cluster
Valencian Region, Spain
CD2E
Cluster
Lille Region, France
HYDREOS
Cluster
Alsace and Lorraine,
France
Lahti Region
Development LADEC
Economic
Development /
Cluster
Lahti, Finland
Lean Energy Cluster
Cluster
Sønderborg, Denmark
Mazovia Cluster ICT
Cluster
Warsaw, Poland
UmweltCluster
Bayern
Cluster
Bavaria, Germany
Water Innovation
Network
Economic
Development /
Cluster
East of England, United
Kingdom
SP Water Technology
Centre
R&D Organisation
Borås, Sweden
Number of
SMEs
supported (if
available)
210
600
80
400
213
74
200
200
n/a